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Dementia: Suicide by drowning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Camilla Haw*
Affiliation:
St Andrew's Healthcare, Billing Road, Northampton NN1 5DG. Email: chaw@standrew.co.uk
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